Welcome to the schedule for BBF 2016! Please note that with the exception of the following sessions (Life without Envy, The Art of Perspective, Writing with Risk, Sound Advice, and Lore), absolutely every session at the BBF is free, and no tickets or preregistration are required. Thanks, and enjoy your day!

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The notion of time has fascinated scientists, philosophers, novelists and poets for, well, for a long time, if not forever. The acclaimed and influential science writer James Gleick’s new book, Time Travel: A History, is an engaging cultural, literary, and scientific exploration of time travel that seamlessly weaves discussions of the works of, among others, H. G. Wells, Ursula Le Guin, Vladimir Nabokov, Daphne du Maurier, William Gibson, and Woody Allen with the theories of Newton, Einstein, Gödel, Hawking, and Schrödinger. Come hear James Gleick discuss the history and, perhaps, the future of time travel with the timeless Tom Ashbrook, host of On Point on WBUR. Sponsored by the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation/Plymouth Rock Foundation.

Tom Ashbrook has been the host of WBUR’s On Point since 2001. Prior to radio work, Ashbrook spent ten years in Asia, starting his journalistic career at the South China Morning Post and later becoming the foreign editor for the Boston Globe. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1996, and during that time, he left the Globe to begin an Internet startup which eventually became homeportfolio.com. His journey in entrepreneurship is... Read More →

James Gleick is a bestselling science writer who served for ten years as a reporter and editor for the New York Times. His first book, Chaos, was a National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist and inspired Nature’s Chaos, a collaboration with photographer Eliot Porter, and Chaos: The Software, created with developers at Autodesk. He is also the author of Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, a “tour de force&rdquo... Read More →